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title: "Hey all🪴👽! Help is needed with this plant ID. This is a picture of…"
description: "Hey all🪴👽! Help is needed with this plant ID. This is a picture of my neighbors plant and she told me it’s an Elephant Ear, however, when I look up “Elephant…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/2OB1JXZXRQeo4spB0EojrA/P5sqTrD6TryqTjZuzcRkZQ"
community: "Plant Identification"
author: "Cait2k3"
published: "2024-07-11T00:34:31.03371Z"
language: "en"
image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/3q1EezzSIXK3J02mDg9m-iP-h2JHaLGgjJOhJDA14ag/OAKkeedjS7mvGHfkYJ5LQg.webp?size=large"
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# Hey all🪴👽! Help is needed with this plant ID. This is a picture of…

_Posted by Cait2k3 on 2024-07-11_

Hey all🪴👽!  
Help is needed with this plant ID. This is a picture of my neighbors plant and she told me it’s an Elephant Ear, however, when I look up “Elephant Ear”, the Planta search results list so many different variegations of Elephant Ear plants. When I search using the photo in the Planta plant identifier, the app claims it is a Split Leaf Philodendron. I will say and it does look like some of the pics shown, but not all of them. I think it most looks like the Elephant Ear “Megladon”. I sure hope one of you one of you lovely Planties know for sure, because my neighbor said I can have a cutting so I need to learn for sure what type it is so I can propagate correctly.

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## 5 comments

### Ji11 commented on 2024-07-11

Not an elephant ear.. I’m leaning towards a split leaf philodendron but I’m not sure

#### Mullein replied on 2024-07-11

Yup, except it’s been reclassified as Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum. Unfortunately quite a bit harder to spell and say than split leaf philodendron 🥲 It may look different than other pictures because the leaves look different depending on how mature the plant is

#### Cait2k3 replied on 2024-07-11

Thanks!!

#### Cait2k3 replied on 2024-07-11

Thank you!

### S.R commented on 2024-07-11

What Mullein said! 💚

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